Liberties Council Has the NSW Public’s Back on the Antisemitism Law-and-Order Smokescreen
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties has raised its concerns that antisemitism has been and continues to be weaponised by politicians and the media alike, via “the incorrect and harmful conflation of Zionism and Judaism”. Zionism, the NSWCCL confirms, is...
NSW Police Stop Using Ineffective and Racially Biased Facial Recognition Identification System
New South Wales police minister Yasmin Catley revealed on 8 April 2025 that the New South Wales Police Force recently ended its use of the PhotoTrac Suspect Identification System, which involved facial recognition software produced by German company Cognitec, and...
Will Australia’s Chief Lawmaker Finally Introduce Effective Whistleblower Protections?
Commonwealth attorney general Mark Dreyfus traipsed back into office at the 2025 federal election, as he took two-thirds of the vote in the seat of Issacs, which is the electorate that he’s held since 2007. The big question many are...
The Return of Albanese in Majority Signals Further Relinquishing Control to the US
The resounding rejection of the Liberal Nationals at last Saturday’s federal election saved the nation from a potential authoritarian power grab at the hands of former Liberal leader Peter Dutton, which is a fate that’s been averted moving into the...
Federal Politics Doesn’t Need a Neo-Nazi Party, as Canberra Has Enough Far-Right Actors
The neo-Nazi booing of Bunurong elder Uncle Mark Brown, as he was performing Welcome to Country at the dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Naarm-Melbourne on 25 April 2025, Anzac Day, was a deplorable act of racism that...
Under Dutton, an Oz MAGA Would Increase Authoritarianism and US Control
Australian radio waves were in a tither on Monday, as the final leaders debate the night before saw potential next PM Peter Dutton unaware of the price of eggs during a cost-of-living crisis. But if that’s the major gripe against...
NSW Government Uses Knife Crime to Justify Wholesale Random Searches and Surveillance
The first day of the NSW Coroners Court Bondi Junction Inquest, which will inquire into the mass stabbing incident that involved 40-year-old white Australian man Joel Cauchi entering the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping mall on 13 April 2024 to commence...
South Australia’s Plan to Seize the Assets of Low-Level Drug Offenders is Counterproductive
As other jurisdictions both in Australia and abroad are seeing the sense in drug law reform, with interventions like pill testing trials in multiple Australian states and territories, the South Australian government has come to the conclusion that the best...
The Thorpe-Payman Genocide Bills Would Ensure No Complicity in Gaza Genocide
Recent days have seen major breakthroughs in reporting on evidence of Australian-made weapons parts and entire locally produced weapons systems, continuing to end up in Israeli military hands during a genocide, via aboveboard, yet opaque, export arrangements, which provide further...
The Victoria Police Killing of Homeless Somali Man: Justified or Excessive Force?
Two Victoria police officers shot dead Somali man Abdifatah Ahmed at around 9 pm on Thursday 17 April 2025, after being called out to the corner of Paisly and Albert streets in the Naarm-Melbourne suburb of Footscray, due to a...
